Taylor Shelton

Ring’s Founder Knows You Hated That Super Bowl Ad

"...There will be fewer maps in any future ads, he said."

He knows the maps make people realize how much this connected surveillance network blankets neighborhoods. People want to think of it as THEIR camera on THEIR door and connected to nothing, but it's not.

Many thanks to all who have already submitted proposals for the 13th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium!

However, in order to maximize participation in this year's symposium, we are extending the abstract and session submission deadline by TWO WEEKS to Friday, February 27th!

There are literally more surveillance cameras in Atlanta (124.14 per 1000 people) than people aged 65 and over (123 per 1000 people) according to the 2024 U.S. Census population estimates

Really excited to share my latest paper in @ijurresearch.bsky.social on mapping (a more expansive understanding of) absentee housing ownership in Atlanta! 🗺️🏘️📌 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Five classes I took in college?

* Dinosaurs and Disasters
* Appalachian Music
* The American City
* Google Maps and the Geography of Information
* Civil Rights Movement in the US since 1930

I'd put my little state school education up against just about anybody's.

If it makes you feel better, my parents were playing this song in the car with me and my sisters as long as I can remember, and I turned out... fine?

📆🚨 REMINDER ⏰⚠️

Abstract submissions for the 13th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium are due in EXACTLY ONE MONTH!

Be sure to submit your proposal for a paper, poster or organized session by February 13th! More info at the CFP below 👇👇

atlantastudies.org/2025/12/17/c...

Screenshot of call for abstracts

📣 Calling all geographers! I'm editing a special issue of the @geographers.bsky.social Annals on "21st Century Geographic Theory" and the call for abstracts is out! Please consider contributing and sharing! All geographers, all kinds of theory welcome! 🌎

Details here: www.aag.org/journal/anna...

As we ring in the new year, it's time to recap all the excellent Atlanta-focused scholarship from 2025 that was published outside of our own (virtual) pages! Catch up on all that you missed throughout the year with our annual round up here: atlantastudies.org/2026/01/01/s...

We are especially excited to welcome @brian-goldstone.bsky.social & Augustus Wood to deliver the keynotes at this year's symposium, sharing their respective work documenting the resilience & resistance of Atlanta's Black working class, who have long been left at the margins of Atlanta scholarship

We are excited to announce the 13th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium, to be held Thursday, May 14, 2026 at Georgia State University.

More information on the symposium and how to submit your abstract or session proposal is available from: atlantastudies.org/2025/12/17/c...

I wonder if Santa knows the locations of all 60,000+ surveillance cameras the Atlanta Police Department has access to? Maybe he can give that data to the public as a kind of collective Christmas gift?

a man with a surprised look on his face and the words what no behind him ALT: a man with a surprised look on his face and the words what no behind him

Total legend

Love the shoutout to Stephanie's "Zizek the shit out of shit" line... had forgotten about that classic!

Screenshot of New York Times article that reads "For the people who make it run, the random and sprawling appeal of having to fill hours of airtime is the draw. In an era of polish, perfection, and increasing corporate consolidation, these student stations can feature seconds or even minutes of “dead air.” But when it’s working, between each set of unusual and handpicked songs, an actual human being with knowledge and heart will explain why they care — and why you should too. The results can be deep, surprising, incredibly human, and wildly satisfying."

This line from the NYT piece about college radio is deeply ironic to me in particular, as one of my recurring nightmares involves being mortified at forgetting how the radio equipment works and leaving extensive amounts of dead air time

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...

the assholes at APD are really trying to piss on our heads and tell us it's raining

ngl it's pretty sick to wake up and be represented by a socialist on the Atlanta city council

Got an email about a workshop at work entitled "AI in the Classroom: What’s Possible, What’s Ethical, What’s Next?"

afaic, the only acceptable answers to those questions are, respectively: Not much of substance, nothing short of total abstinence, and probably putting a fucking bullet in my brain

Did you know that the Atlanta Braves' move to Cobb County in 2017 wasn't the first time the suburban county tried to lure a professional team with the promise of a new stadium?

Check out @andrewbramlett.bsky.social's new article in for more of this history!

atlantastudies.org/2025/10/20/c...

I think I'm in favor of disbanding the University of Kentucky football team. Would make my life a lot simpler, I know that

If you're such an irrelevant dumbass, why did he invite you to be on his transition team?

My current council representative doing this bullshit on the same day I get campaign lit from one of the dumbasses running for my new district that touts more surveillance cameras as a top campaign plank 🙄

3 new GA measles cases all traced back to single patient who went to GSU, restaurant, soccer event “It’s about 90% contagious for someone who has not been vaccinated,” a physician at WellStar Urgent Care said.

It's really cool that this happened on my campus - indeed in the building where I spend 99% of my time at work - nearly a month ago and the university has never shared a single bit of information about it

If I have to check a box confirming that I didn't use ChatGPT in order to submit my review, I expect the authors to have not used ChatGPT to produce the actual paper. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Just got all the way through reading an article for peer review only to be encountered by the disclosure that the author used generative AI to edit their paper. Second time this has happened to me this year. Second time I've given an automatic reject decision. This shit has to stop.

To be honest, this makes me reevaluate whether I'm going to be reading ACC in the future or be willing to provide quotes. Which is unfortunate given that @thatseankeenan.bsky.social is the only person covering some of the stories that matter most to me. But outsourcing to AI is a red line

I have no doubt that doing this project required intensive work. But turning to the plagiarism machine to cut corners isn't the answer and doesn't inspire faith, which is a disservice to the work that actual human beings did do on this important topic.

Screenshot of a disclosure from an Atlanta Civic Circle story about extended stay hotels, which reads "Reporting tools included, DALL-E for illustrations, DataWrapper for graphs, and ChatGPT for research and readability. Have questions or comments about this series or have ideas for another ACC Explores? Send us an email, info@atlantaciviccircle.org."

Yo @atlantaciviccircle.org, this is pretty gross, especially on a story about such an important topic. Can we just not?

Apteka for vegan Polish food.

Never heard people in a city have such consensus about their #1 restaurant recommendation. Was absolutely worth the wait.